VIDEO-- Rove: People In Pennsylvania "Really Do Cling To Their Guns And Their Faith"

By GottaLaff

Oh, but he was only "quoting Obama". Uh-huh. Via Think Progress:

ROVE: But it’s a conservative part of the state, and then if you take the far southwestern corner over there near Pittsburgh and the suburbs, that’s coal country, and that’s the kind of people who really do cling to their guns and their faith, and took a lot of — you know that was part of the state where Obama might be expected to do well.

Alan Colmes picked up on the gaffe. “I don’t believe you just said that. You didn’t say what Obama said?” Colmes asked. Rove stammered, claiming he forgot to add air quotes:

ROVE: No, no, I’m just trying — I’m quoting Obama and then I want it –

COLMES: That was a quote. I just wanted to be sure.

ROVE: That was a quote. In quotes.

COLMES: I didn’t see the hand quote thing.

Neither did I.